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Shooting ends Oregon crime rampage

KEIZER, Ore., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A police standoff in an Oregon courthouse ended with a suspect in multiple crimes being shot multiple times and taken to a hospital.

Thirty-seven year-old Christopher Lee Millis of Keizer, Ore., was in intensive care after surgery Saturday.

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Nobody else was hurt in the lead up to the shooting by a SWAT team member -- a spree that left investigators with six crime scenes, The Statesman Journal reports.

Millis allegedly shot at a neighbor's truck and two neighbors' houses as well as a police officer pursuing him.

He also is thought to have set two cars on fire in the Keizer Police Department parking lot, driven his pickup truck into the Marion County Courthouse and set fire to a jury room in the basement, where a confrontation with the SWAT team ended his alleged rampage.

Millis and his wife are starting divorce proceedings, according to neighbor Christina Anderson. They have six children. Anderson said Millis was a good neighbor to her.

Gary Hurd said he had called the police 10 times in the past year because Millis infringed on his property. He said Millis confronted him about that as well.

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Hurd's house was one of the two neighbors' houses Millis allegedly shot at.

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